31.   Conferees are debating different ways that nations can use to meet their emission reductions targets.

32.   Developing nations, which are not legally bound to emissions targets under the treaty, maintain the United States is not taking climate change seriously enough.

33.   For this reason, they were exempted from emissions reduction targets under the Rio treaty.

34.   In a surprise move that rattled developing nations, Argentina and Kazakstan announced they would voluntarily seek binding emissions targets like their industrial counterparts.

35.   Speaking at a news conference Friday, Prabhu insisted industrialized countries must meet their emissions targets before offering new initiatives.

36.   The EU has said it could meet emissions targets without putting added costs on industry or by threatening jobs.

37.   The government argues that the Australian economy would be harmed far more than other developed countries if uniform greenhouse gas emission reduction targets are adopted.

38.   The forecast was in a paper in which Australia argued its case against uniform gas emission targets ahead of the December U.N. climate conference in Kyoto, Japan.

39.   The key issue blocking agreement was whether countries should be allowed to count the carbon dioxide absorbed by forests and farmlands toward their emissions reduction targets.

40.   The number of gases that are considered, for example, determines, in part, how easily the Europeans and the United States can achieve their emission targets.